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960 TH E LEADER. [SltttitBl*,
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LETTERS FROM PARIS. [Fbom our own Corkes...
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John Jmtlgtllt At Belfast. Taking .Ulvan...
receive the support of a majority of the representatives of Ireland . There is a great attempt making to prove with liberals of England that they can have nothing in common with the Catholic representatives of Ireland . I confess , from my observation of the Irish Liberal representatives , that I am of a different opinion . ( Hear . ) I am not about to justify the part that some of them may have taken , nor would I ask them to approve of all that I have done ; but I must say that in the main , with scarcely an exception , the Catholic and Liberal members from Ireland , upon all questions affecting the people , whether of Great Britain or Ireland , have never been found adverse to liberty and to progress . Upon the Eeform Bill , slave emancipation , Municipal Corporations Bill , and Free-trade , we always Ireland
had a majority of the Irish representatives of upon our side ; and he , in my opinion , is an enemy of both countries who endeavours to make it appear that there are no objects which we can work in common . Take the Freetrade question and Parliamentary reform , and see if there is any doubt whatever but that we will work harmoniously on those subjects . ( Hear , hear . ) Take the question of the Ballot ( cheers)—and let me ask can we not co-operate on that ? ( Hear , and cheers . ) We have heard strange things in England of what has been done in this country during the recent elections ; we have have been told of the doings of Lord Londonderry in a neighbouring county , and strange things of what certain ecclesiastics did further south and west ; but I find that the press does not say as much about the landlords as about the priests , and yet
nobody pretends that the priests wanted to make the people vote against their opinions or their feelings , whilst it is notorious that the landlords did so . ( Cheers . ) It might be said that the measure of compulsion on the part o f the priests was proportioned to that exercised by the landlords , but it is not a fair measure , for it does not measure at all . What the priests wanted was , that the people should withstand the tyranny of the landlords , and should vote in accordance with their own sentiments and wishes . ( Cheers . ) The only remedy , however , offered for the evil is by the priests , and that is the establishment of the ballot . ( Loud and continued cheering . ) I believe that no Liberal Government can come into office or remain in office that is not prepared to bring forward a bill for the establishment of the Ballot . " ( Cheers . )
He wound up by declaring that Englishmen , spite of supremacy in the Church , and aristocracy in the Government , had none but the best wishes fox * Ireland .
960 Th E Leader. [Sltttitbl*,
960 TH E LEADER . [ SltttitBl *
Letters From Paris. [Fbom Our Own Corkes...
LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ Fbom our own Corkespondent . ] Letteb , XLI . Paris , October 5 , 1852 . We are beginning to learn the truth , about the pretended triumphs of Louis Bonaparte in the South . He has been everywhere received with the coldest and most disdainful silence . The authorities display a formidable ini ' se en scene : all that bears an official or semi-official character is forced to throng the passage of the hero , but there begins and ends the pretended population , rushing to welcome the " Prince" with acclamations . Not only the public functionaries of every kind and grade , not only the magistracy of the towns , not only the district judges and the country priests , but even every local tax-gatherer , down to the very rats de cave , ( excise-men , ) the custom-house officers , the foresters , the rural police , are summoned to attend . All the municipal councils in every department are convolved . At Marseilles the societies of mutual assistance wore forced to join the cortege . So it has been with the old soldiers of the Empire ; all grouped , disposed , arranged like a stage procession , to produce effect , lixit , unfortunately , the enthusiasm has been wanting : the slaves who swell the triumph , and throng the victor ' s car , remain silent , and the crowd of gazers
follow their example . At a given moment , even the slaves avenge themselves . At Marseilles , with its population of 100 , 000 souls , and about 12 , 000 rich merchants , only twenty men of good will could ho found to serve iis an escort of honour to Bonaparte . Besides , the municipal council , which had voted funds for the reception , Wiis convened to vote , an address , and rejected by a large majority the complimentary address proposed by the Mayor . At Ronnne , where , according to the Monti cur , the enthusiasm exceeded all bounds , the municipal elections have just taken place . The members
composing ( he municipal council which had received Honaparte , were rejected by an immense majority , and replaced by men of the opposition ; and the mayor , M . Andre Fauvel , whose daughter had presented a . bouquet to the 1 ' resident , replaced by a republican , a man politically condemned , and restricted to residence ( interne" ) at Itoaune . At Montpellier , where , according to the Moniteur , Bonaparte was received with the liveliest enthusiasm , out of l ;{ , 00 () electors , only 1 H 50 came forward to vote for the candidates of Government : the remaining 10 , 050 electors abstained from voting altogether .
Neither at Marseilles , Toulon , nor Montpellier , did the population join in tho shouts of the functionaries eager for promotion . Indeed , tho real population is carefully kept out of the way . Every where tho passage of the President , and t ) io approaches of tho streets , arc barred by linos of soldiers . Tho horo can only bo seen from a distance . Ah thia extravagance of precaution
is observed , the gazers remain silent and thoughtful . The soldiers themselves look gloomy and depressed , and raise no shout . At Toulon , the mode of reception to be pursued by the fleet had been pre-arranged with excessive particularity . Even the shouts had been regulated beforehand : the officers and crews were to shout Vive Louis Napoleon ! When Bonaparte passed the ship ' s companies in review , the officers alone shouted , to give the signal to the crews : but the crews maintained an obstinate silence . We hear that Bonaparte made a horrible grimace at this reception .
His progress continues . He returned from Toulon to Marseilles on the 29 th ult ., and set out again on the 30 th for Aix . On the first of this month he was at Montpellier , where he went to the Cathedral to receive the incense of the priests and the benediction of the Bishop , as usual . On the 2 nd he arrived at Narbonne , and on the 3 rd assisted at high mass in the Cathedral of that town . On the 4 th he was at Carcassonne . As I write , he is at Toulouse , where he is receiving all the honours and ovations which the famous Prefect of Toulouse has been so long preparing—namely , the mayors of all the communes of his department , with deputations , and banners , and drums , and hautboys , crowned with flowers . To-day , too , he is to witness a representation of the great Battle of Toulouse .
Throughout his journey this pale copyist of the Emperor launches his decrees . Napoleon the Great dated from Berlin the Continental Blockade , from Moscow the organization of the Theatre Francais : Napoleon the Little dates from Grenoble a decree on the rural police ( gardes champetres ); and at Marseilles , without consulting Ministers or Budget , he decrees a sum of 2 , 500 , 000 francs ( 100 , 000 Z . ) for rebuilding the Cathedral of that city . Really this gentleman disposes of
French money as if it were his own . On the occasion of this donation , being complimented by the Bishop , Bonaparte replied , " that his Government was the only one that had not made of religion a political instrument . " It is true , that while he was making this veracious reply , the Moniteur was informing us that " all the allocations addressed to the Prince by the municipal authorities , and by the clergy , tended to the transformation of the powers held by the Elect of the People . "
Au reste , this transformation goes bravely on . The reconstruction of the throne at the Tuileries is completed . Most active preparations are being made in that palace for the reception of the conquering hero on his return . More than 2000 workmen are now employed in restoring the palace to a fit state to be inhabited by " His Impebiai / Highness . " A triumphal entry into Paris is in contemplation , such as was never witnessed , even here . Unfortunately the city is quite exhausted of its funds .
Instead of returning to Paris on Friday , the 15 th inst ., Bonaparte will not re-enter the city before Sunday , the 17 th , in order that there may be a larger concourse of people on his passage . He is to arrive , about ten o ' clock in the morning , at the Terminus of the Orleans Railway , and from thence proceed direct to the Cathedral of Notre Dame , where a Te Deum will be chanted . Thence he will proceed along tho Quays to the Champs Elysees , through an uninterrupted double line of troops . The National Guards of Paris and tho banlieue will be under arms . There the famous mise
en scene of tin ; Departments will bo repeated . All the municipal councils of the Department of tho Seine , with drums and banners at their head , will bo assembled . Young girls will present flowers , tho soldiers will present arms ; tho priests will throw incense , and there will be a salute from the artillery . Some say that immediately after the ceremony Bonaparte will bo installed at the Tuileries ; others that he will go to St . Cloud , whore a second triumphal entry will take place in the presence of deputations from all tho communes of the Department of the Seino et Oise . This mania for triumphs is becoming sheer insanity in Bonaparte . At all events , the Senate will be convoked at the end of the month , to declare that the unanimous desire of the population is tho Empire , with Louis Bonaparte
as Emperor . The question now is , bow long will this ridiculous parody of tho Empire last ? Will tho imperial restoration bo more fortunate than tho royal ? Will it bo followed , as was tho elder monarchy , by an Empire of the younger branch ? If it should not bo ho , it certainly will not bo tho fault of Na ] M > leon-Jeroim ! . JIo is intriguing in every direction , feeling Iuh way , digging tho ground , iiulefatigably . Or will t \ w awakened people , in tho day of thoir wrath , sweep away all these mountebanks , with all tho gewgaws of their imperial comedy ? This last is the most likely hypothesis . In tho meantime , everything is making ready for the denouement of tho comedy . Already a Hucldler lni . s received an order to have the imperial arms engraved on all tho hameaa of Uonaparte ' a houaohold .
Pieces of money with the imperial effigy are alread cp ined . Many of the names selected for the resuscita . tion of the imperial dignities are alread y mentioned * M . Baroche is to be the Arch-Chancellor , with the Elysee for his residence . The entire press , with the single exception of the Moniteur , to be suppressed Universal suffrage itself will almost cease to be consulted . „ The legislative corps will be modified , and the tribune suppressed . No new editions of such a speech as M . de Montalembert ' s will be tolerated : the Leeds , lature will be strictly a corps of mutes . Happily , indeed , Bonaparte , with all his decrees cannot decree us a one-armed people ; and the day will come when we shall recover the use of both
It would appear by the Journal le Frankfort that the European Powers are disposed to let the Empire pass without a protest , on the sole condition that Bo . naparte respect ( what remains of ) the territorial arrangements of the treaties of 1815 . Napoleon the Little is to accept Waterloo ! That will be curious and piquant enough ! He contents himself with parodying the big phrases of the Emperor . The other day , at Marseilles , it was , " The Mediterranean should become a French lake . " One of these days he will halt on the Place de la Concorde , and , pointing to the peaceful obelisk of Luxor , he will exclaim to Iis soldiers , " From the summit of this obelisk , " & c . & c .
They do , indeed , contemplate the army ; and they behold our soldiers massacring their defenceless brethren in the name of discipline , and receiving the honours and pay of a campaign for that glorious service ! The attitude of the population begins to cause some uneasiness to Bonaparte and his adherents . All the rigorous measures of December are resumed . In every department persons confined to certain districts ( in ~ terries ' ) are suddenly torn from their houses and deposited on the frontier , if not transported to Algeria .
Fresh arrests are taking place in Paris and in the provinces . A number of workmen , suspected of more than commonly ardent republicanism , are driven out of Paris . Numerous domiciliary visits take place in the towns and villages . We are living under the loi des suspects of 1793 . The other day the house of Pilhes was absolutely besieged because it was known that Aristide Pilhes , the ex-representative , had taken refuge there . He had been condemned to transportation , and had made his escape from the prison of Foix .
The Prefect of Vaucluse , in concert with the Procureur de la Republique , surprised Tarascon in the dead of night , at the head of a whole force of gendarmerie , in the department , and surrounded the town . They proceeded to search every house . Seventeen housea were thus broken into in succession . The minutest researches , prolonged for several hours , led to no
result . The press is still the object of continual persecutions . The Siecle has been condemned to a thousand francs fine and a year ' s imprisonment . No one knows for what article , deserving so severe a sentence . M . Louis Jourdan , the editor of the Siecle , affected by this penalty , is a man known for his extreme reserve and singular moderation . His condemnation has produced a most
unfavourable impression . Tho Censorship is not less active . A new p iece , called Richard the Third , was in preparation at the Porte St . Martin , in which tho words tyrant and usurper occurred more than once . All the passages were expunged . What a pity it is thnt the censors cannot suppress history ! History is guilty of a thousand other ( illusions equally criminal . Even in Switzerland , Bonaparte has forbidden tho publication of Victor Hugo ' s brochure , on tho pretext of insults against a friendly government . , Tho elections of Paris aro over . The Government
candidates ( two highly respectable merchants ) wero retnrnod by an insignificant majority . On © hal electors abstained altogether from voting ; the v otcn of the other half wore about equally divided betw een tho Government and tho opposition . One of tho ulectors hud written upon his ticket thin formidable tl | rt ' j " If Bonaparte makes himself Emperor , I take my
solemn oath to kill him " Another electoral fact , equally significant , " " tieed in tho Department of tho lie et Yilaino , at 1 - bigniic , in tho communal elections . Not n Hingl « e J (! presented himself during tho two dayH the ha" ©* open . The official bureau , finding thnt no voters & forward , also declined to vote , and wont away , l «" B tho ballot-boxes empty . Tins is a fact unoxampl "'
tho history of elections . Tlofrt :-Tho garrison of tho Vnr has boon doubled . - ' ,, quent communications between the Vbt and the * j n rofugees in Piedmont , made Bonaparte fear an »« ^ . of thiit Department . In tho Department ot ti rondo , a number of depots of arms and of £ ""** ' ar 0 have been discovered . Everywhere , in Act , tne eignu of ugitutioii . Tho quarrel with Uel giuw g
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09101852/page/4/
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